Friday night was fun. We had Divan for dinner, which is this great to go restaurant with kebabs and wrap things. I'm not really sure what they are called, pitas maybe? But they aren't on pita bread. I'll take a picture the next time I have it. I've had 3 times since I've been in Barca....so yummy! I really need to remember to take pictures. So anyway, after that, came back and ate our Divan wrap thingies and play TV Scene It while enjoying some yummy Catalan wine. Then a big group of us all went out to the bars by the beach. People here don't go out until like 1 pm (because they don't start eating until 11), so it has been an adjustment. The bars all play American music, which is hilarious. If it weren't for the ocean outside, I would swear we were in Columbia, MO going to Harpo's. While coming back from the bars, I hopped out of the cab and who did I see, none other than my sorority sister Jordan. She is studying in Alicante for the semester, and I knew she was in Barcelona and we had been trying to meet up. How funny to run into her on a random street in Barcelona at 4:30 in the morning. (On another note, my mother is very concerned about how late that is, and I very well know it is, but I've had to adjust, and I'm being safe MOM!) It was so fun to bump into her.
Saturday morning and the rest of the day, Peter and I walked around my new neighborhood. We went to this delicious restaurant right by Sagrada Familia. I had pizza that I could cut with this metal mallet. I really should take pictures of these things because I am having a hard time describing them! It was very cool. Bad news....5 euro coca colas!!!!!!! Peter and I were SHOCKED! Literally, 5 euros EACH! Insane insane insane. Never again. Now we have a joke about what sounds best right now....a 5 euro coca cola. Since we were going to the Barca game with our program Saturday night, (for clarification, Barca is the soccer team here, FCBarcelona), I decided to purchase a soccer jersey. They normally wear this really ugly red and blue ones, BUT, they also having an alternate jersey that is the hot pink/orange color that I LOVED! So I went from shop to shop, bartering with these souvenir shop owners about this stupid jersey. I think we went to around 8 different stores until I got the price I wanted.
That night, we met at the guys apartment to go down to the game. Having just been in Venice last weekend, I am still on a bellini kick. So I made my own with 1 euro champagne and peach juice to enjoy before heading down on the metro to Camp Nou (where the soccer game was). With my peach champagne in hand wearing my hot peach colored jersey, I was pretty cool. It took us awhile to get down to the game, and I have never seen so many people fill a stadium. Since we went with the program, our seats weren't very good, but they were at the top of the stadium, and it was cool to basically get a birds eye view of the whole place. I also enjoyed a hot dog! It was on a huge baguette and was absolutely worth the 4 euros. The game was exciting....actually not really. It was kind of boring. It was exciting because it was my first (and probably) last soccer game to ever attend. We won! Which made it even better. But two 45 minute halves never passed so slowly. I really did enjoy it though. Afterwards, we were all so tired that we just called it an early night.
Today was also a fun day. I met up with my other sorority sister who was in town, Kiley, and a big group of us went to the Picasso Museum today. Now, I love art. But some of that in there, was not art. It was erotic and sexually explicit Japanese drawings Picasso did at the end of his life. I was really grossed out and did not enjoy that part. BUT! The permanent Piccasso collection was amazing. I love art and always have, and I could have stayed there forever, but I was holding everyone back, so eventually, I had to leave. I really do love looking at some of these paintings he made when he was like 14! It really was incredible, and I now have an even bigger fascination with Picasso. I hope I can trick Michael, Peter and Megan to go to the other Picasso Museum in Paris, when we go in March!
Attempted to go to church tonight at La Catedral, but since we were at the museum so late, I didn't make it in time. They do have services during the middle of the week, so I will probably go then. Until then, my Pastor Jeff podcasts from iTunes will do the trick for my church dose.
As for this week, I have a lot of school work, but I go to Rome on Thursday morning! Only 3 days of school this week :) I'm really really excited. I will write more tomorrow...my fingers are tired from typing haha. So lame.
Besos!
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